gnome-font-viewer

[drx]

 > I assume by puting
> them in the fonts:/// folder they are available system wide rather
> than just for the one user (~/.fonts) . 

I guess so, but it did not do anything. Maybe if i'd sudo.

> i probably didnt need to use
> the command to refresh the fonts (probably an old tip on the net).
> 
> Anyway - looks like the gnome-font-viewer is broken in Hoary - maybe
> its changed format like the menus for Gnome 2.9 (are you using Hoary?)
> Ill post a bug report.

Warty.